Using successful graduates to improve the quality of undergraduate engineering programmes

Scott, Geoff; Yates, Kendra

doi:10.1080/03043790210166666

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“…The professionals' perspectives have been increasingly considered an added value for curriculum review and innovation (Evans et al, 1993;Meier et al, 2000;Pascail, 2006;Sageev & Romanowski, 2001;Scott & Yates, 2002).…”

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“…Although there are some studies dedicated to IEM profession intending to analyze these kind of dimensions, they use surveys to get perceptions from the professionals (Meier et al, 2000;Sageev & Romanowski, 2001;Scott & Yates, 2002). Therefore, a different methodological approach is proposed and presented in this work, which brings a new contribution to identify industry needs.…”

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Defining the Industrial and Engineering Management Professional Profile: a longitudinal study based on job advertisements

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Rocha

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The engineering professional profiles have been discussed by several branches of the engineering field. On the one hand, this discussion helps to understand the professional practice and contributes to the specification of the competences that are suitable for each function and company culture. On the other hand, it is an essential starting point for the definition of curricula in engineering schools. Thus, this study aims to characterize, in an innovative way based on job advertisements, the demand for competences and areas of practice for Industrial Engineering and Management contributing for the definition of a professional profile. This characterization is based on the analysis of 1391 job advertisements, collected during seven years from a Portuguese newspaper. The data analysis takes into account the job description in which two categories were considered: areas of professional practice (e.g. project management) and transversal competences (e.g. teamwork). Considering the total number of job advertisements, it was possible to identify 1,962 cumulative references for 11 professional practice areas and 5,261 cumulative references for transversal competences. The contribution of this study lies on the identification of the main areas of practice and the main transversal competences demanded by employers.

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Defining the Industrial and Engineering Management Professional Profile: a longitudinal study based on job advertisements

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Rocha

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“…This method has been applied in various universities around the world such as in the USA India and UK. [41,42] They applied four major principles Biased and focused towards customer satisfaction Customers are the ones who define their satisfaction Improvement is a continuous process The greatest assets of the organization are the people However [41] proposed some things that must be in place before TQM can be implemented such that top leadership of the university must be the driving force, commitment on the part of all, customer-focus, continuous evaluation of the process, availability of resources, training and retraining of management, staff and students, empowering of employees, effective communication, long term strategy and planning among others. The use of the method allows for the efficient transition of students from the university environments into the work environment, and it would provide better performance since university education is meant to prepare students for the wider engineering industry just like a company providing goods and services to the people.…”

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Embracing the future of engineering education in Nigeria: teaching and learning challenges

2018

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There has been a wide advocacy around the adoption of better teaching methods for Engineering Education in Nigeria, more especially with the advent of information and telecommunication technologies. However, compared with what was applicable, about 40 to 50 years ago, little has changed in the country in relation to classroom teaching and learning, use of teaching aids, and laboratory works among others. The general concept of the Nigerian education system and the role of engineering in the educational system are examined in this paper. It also examines the present Nigerian engineering teaching style and outputs, some of the challenges being faced by engineering education in Nigeria especially in relation to teaching and learning highlighted. The work proposes some changes that would make engineering education better in Nigeria while showing that sustainable engineering education development for the future engineering education lies in a modified teaching-learning approach guided by real-world problems.

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“…As the work done by [5] suggests, students tend to focus on trying to learn the content of past tests and exams. The design of the ECE Embedded System Design course leveraged that knowledge by giving students projects throughout the semester and informing the students that the exam will be similar to the projects.…”

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Using successful graduates to improve the quality of undergraduate engineering programmes

Cited by 105 publications

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Defining the Industrial and Engineering Management Professional Profile: a longitudinal study based on job advertisements

Defining the Industrial and Engineering Management Professional Profile: a longitudinal study based on job advertisements

Embracing the future of engineering education in Nigeria: teaching and learning challenges

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